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by Huda Al KadhimiDoor of the East, HARAM

The documentary “Door of the East,” HARAM follows three women: Ayah Ben Ali from Tunisia, Israa Essam from Iraq, and Rose Yousef from Syria. They have escaped alone from their home country, seeking to fulfil their dreams of self-determination far away from fear, religious observance, and wars. Will they find what they were looking for in their new home, France?

Photo: Goethe-InstitutBorn in 1991 in Baghdad, Huda has studied Business Administration at Al-Ahliyya Amman University in Jordan. She joined the Iraqi Independent Film Center (IIFC) in 2013, where she started to work on films. After directing her short film “My Bird Tweets” and co-directing “The Lost Desert,” she began producing her documentary “Door of the East,” HARAM.